Cultivating Femininity women and tea culture in Edo and Meiji Japan

The overwhelming majority of tea practitioners in contemporary Japan are women, but there has been little discussion on their historical role in tea culture (chanoyu). In Cultivating Femininity, Rebecca Corbett writes women back into this history and shows how tea practice for women was understood,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Corbett, Rebecca, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press 2018.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009745288406719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Women and tea culture in early modern Japan
  • A handbook for elite women's tea in the eighteenth century
  • A handbook for women's tea in the nineteenth century
  • Guides for cultivating femininity
  • Guides for modern life
  • Epilogue : beyond the Meiji period.